The Return

It was such a spectacular event to see the return of 5 heroes to their homeland, especially Samir Quntar who spent more than 30 years in an Israeli prison. The event was amazing overshadowing the great achievement of the Islamic resistance, Hizbullah. For the first time (or actually second) we have witnessed the level of weakness of the current leaders in Israel. I don't want to say the weakness of the entire "state" of Israel, because realistically they still have the strongest army in the region, as well as having a much better economy than most countries in the middle east and north Africa. Nevertheless, this is another success story that history will record for the Islamic resistance group.

It was also nice to see the unity within the Lebanese ranks and leaders(even if it was only ceremonial) but it was good to watch anyways.

This deal has brought more credibility to Hizbullah within Lebanon, and has also raised the bar in regards to the prisoner exchange between Hamas, which has Gilad Shalit and Israel which still has thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including Palestinian political prisoners. What is important to notice is that Israel refuses to release Palestinian prisoners since it says they are a threat to Israel's security, and are terrorists which have been sentenced to life in prison. Samir Quntar, as I heard has been sentenced to five life sentences, which equal to 512 years (thats what Ghasan Bin Gido said). Now considering Israel released Samir Quntar, then Hamas will definitely negotiate at the same level, in other words try to get the ones that are the most difficult to get, also in other words get those whom Israel considers to be a "threat" to them the most (I hope I explained this well). Also the Israeli government will definitely feel the public pressure in order to undergo a similar exchange with Hamas, as more than 70% of the Israeli public believe that a similar deal should be considered with Hamas.

Are we witnessing the slow decline in what is known as Israel? And hopefully a peaceful end to the tyrannical state of Israel, or will Israel "fight to the death"? We will definitely know the end of this story in the coming 30 years. Until then I will be here writing about what I think, knowing that you are enjoying reading what I have to say. But I doubt I will be doing this for the next 30 years, who knows maybe by then I will have my own biased news agency. Anyways till then..